Dropbox Sign is one step.
Apdf is all three.
Generate the agreement from your HTML, send it as a personal link, see every page read and collect the signatures — behind one API key, for less than a signature-only plan.
Why teams outgrow the Dropbox Sign API.
Dropbox Sign does one step well: the signature. The PDF before it and the reading around it stay your problem — and every extra request moves you up a plan.
$75 for 50 requests
The Essentials API plan is $75 a month for a starting 50 signature requests. Doubling to 100 means Standard, at $250 a month.
Bring your own PDF
Documents arrive as files or file URLs. There’s no HTML to PDF, and no merge, compress or OCR endpoint — that’s a second vendor.
One “viewed” event
Callbacks report sent, viewed, signed and declined. Viewed is one event — nothing on which page was read, or for how long.
Free means three
The free package allows up to three signature requests a month. Test mode is free, but its requests are watermarked and not legally binding.
What you get instead.
The signature, plus the step before it and the reading around it — one key, one plan, every step reported to your app.
More signatures per dollar
Pro covers 50 signature requests a month for $39 and 100 for $69 — up to ten signers each, with the sealed PDF and its audit trail. No plan jump to double the volume.
The PDF, generated
Render the agreement from your HTML or fill a PDF form, merge in the annexes, compress it — then request the signatures with the same key. No second vendor for the PDF.
Every read, not one “viewed”
Opens, page reads, comments and form entries reach your app as typed events with the signer’s name — so a nudge goes to the signer who stalled on page three, not to everyone.
Apdf vs. Dropbox Sign
Both collect the signature. Only one also makes the PDF and tells your app how it was read.
Need qualified signatures? Use Dropbox Sign. Sending from your app? Use Apdf.
Half the price,
all three steps.
Dropbox Sign charges for the signature step alone. Apdf prices the workspace — generation, tracking and signatures in one plan.
Essentials API — a starting 50 signature requests a month.
- 100 requests a month: Standard at $250/mo
- No PDF generation or PDF operations
- One “viewed” event, no reading data
- Free package: three requests a month
Pro — the whole team, one workspace.
- 50 signature requests a month — 100 for $69
- Generation and 20,000 PDF operations included
- Page reads, comments and signatures as webhooks
- Hard caps, never an overage charge
Switch in an afternoon.
Same shape as a Dropbox Sign request: a file, the signers and their fields. What changes is what comes back.
Generate or bring the PDF
Render it from HTML, fill a PDF form, or pass the URL of the file you already send — the same way you passed file URLs before.
Send the request
One signature request names the signers and places the fields by text anchor, coordinates or the PDF’s own form fields.
Swap callbacks for events
Point an automation at your endpoint. Signed, declined and completed arrive there — and every page read before them.